The Third Reich under the banner of the Third Empire Volume 3: The Song of Iron and Fire Chapter 10: More Ostentatious than Him

  Anyway, Xu Yang is now a lieutenant colonel in the armored forces of the National Defense Army. What an enviable rank! When infantry regiment colonels meet armored regiment colonels, they can't help but show envy on their faces. The infantry regiment colonels will salute Xu Yang, who is twenty years younger than them, with a very respectful attitude, because rapid promotion and the "leak" in the French newspaper tell everyone that this person is not to be trifled with!

  Is Xuyang difficult to get along with? Absolutely not, and even too easy to get along with. People have seen too many incredible things from him and received too many surprises. The first national defense officer to enter the Rhine region is really impressive! The youngest colonel in the National Defense Army, and also a colonel of an armored division who outranks others...

  Other officers are envying to madness! In private, they even said with full of jealousy: One person gets the way, chickens and dogs rise to heaven! Those two silent and unknown little brats also became captains... Oh my god... They are armored regiment captains!

  The Third Armored Division is now just an empty shell, with only four people in charge, including the principal and deputy leaders, but no soldiers at all. Medium main battle tanks, light assault tanks, light tracked armored vehicles, and the four of them have to run around like beggars everywhere, asking for help, and it's not even certain if they can get what they need. Troops, auxiliary artillery, maintenance units, and necessary reserves are still needed to be sought after everywhere.

  Manstein was even thinking that the High Command wanted to kick him out and abandon him before he knew Xu Yang was coming. When he saw Xu Yang's name list, he immediately froze, shouting loudly, with his mouth calling out "God hasn't abandoned me". He had been a soldier for half his life, once wanting to be a pure soldier, but unfortunately... being a pure soldier is not easy. Without background, without opportunity, even having ability is futile!

  At the moment, Manshtein was sitting comfortably in his office drinking coffee. Supplies? He didn't need to handle them himself at all. Manshtein still remembered what had happened two days ago...

  It was a very busy morning, Manstein's expression looked bleak, he wandered lonely in the crowded streets. At the military arsenal, Manstein received inhuman treatment, almost asking for nothing, just requesting G?ring to be kind and give him a bullet to commit suicide, G?ring still replied with that sentence: No!

  Goring dislikes the Defense Ministry, dislikes everyone who can be disliked. His grand air force plan had a lot of funding taken away by the Defense Ministry.

  At that time, Xu Yang was in the office planning the reasonable equipment of the armored division. He fully understood what kind of configuration could bring out the combat effectiveness of an armored division, and a reasonable match was the most basic manifestation of an armored division's combat effectiveness. Just as he ordered Xiao Mi (female, young and beautiful) to prepare the 13th cup of coffee, Manstein knocked on the door and walked in.

  Manstein said dejectedly: "I don't have anything to give, Goering won't even give me bullets for suicide."

  Xu Yang smiled... That's right, he smiled and said: "Colonel, I will follow you over."

  Xu Yang summons Rick and Joseph to prepare the documents, and the four of them directly get into a II tank, which is Xu Yang's mount. They look very menacing...

  "This...this isn't good, is it?" Manshtein sat in the driver's seat, feeling like he had gotten himself into a world of trouble.

  The tank was driven by Joseph, whose driving skills were quite impressive.

  Rick was sorting out the necessary documents, he just looked up and saw a slight sneer on his lips, and continued to sort out his documents. Perhaps in his heart, this deserter began to look down on Manshtein, this timid superior.

  Xu Yang deeply understood that Gorin was a man who had to be more arrogant, ruthless and shameless in order to get what he wanted. If he just smiled and tried to please him, Gorin would only look down on him and not even have any sympathy for him, but instead would mock him mercilessly.

  The "Rumble" tank was started, Xu Yang tested the muzzle and gave the order: "Go past Bandel Street."

  The tank moved forward. As the deputy officer, Rick had a responsibility to remind, "From the embassy district, it's relatively close, and there are fewer people on the bridge upstream of Haveltal."

  Xu Yang glanced at the pale-faced Manstein and asked, "Colonel, would you like to choose whether to go from the embassy district or Bandele Street to the arsenal?"

  Manshtein's whole body was trembling, he forgot to secure himself in the driver's seat, he opened his mouth but nothing came out. In his heart, he thought: "These people are crazy!"

  The divisional headquarters of the 3rd Armored Division was located near Anhalter Station, which made it convenient for transfer. In other words, if they were to enter the territory of the Arsenal, there were two options: The first one was the upstream bridge mentioned by Rick, also known as the Embassy Bridge, where the flow of people was the least in all of Berlin. The second option was the midstream Potsdamer Brücke, where the flow of people was relatively more.

  Let Manshtein choose, he would choose the Tsarsenbrücke Bridge, where there are many people, but the impact will be less. Except for crazy people, no one wants to let diplomats from various countries see a big guy rushing on the street, and the turret of that big guy is still rotating!

  "Good heavens! Who have I offended?" Manstein's forehead was already beaded with sweat.

  Tanks appeared on the streets, and people strolling in the streets were first stunned, then went wild with cheers. The slogans were varied, but one thing was certain: people were now willing to look at their own country's armed forces. After the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the status of soldiers in Germany had been greatly improved.

  Compared to diesel engines, gasoline engines produce less smoke when running at full power, making them more suitable for covert operations. The roar of the engine is also louder than that of a diesel engine. When the tank's cannon points in their direction, people cover their mouths and start to feel stunned by its overwhelming presence. But then they think again: "That's our country's strength!"

  As the tank drove over the Kensenbendler Bridge, onlookers worried in their hearts, fearing that the ancient bridge would be crushed by the heavy-looking vehicle, and they didn't want to have to take a detour in the future.

  "Does it look flexible?" A commuter had already forgotten to continue nibbling on his bread.

  "It looks so safe!" exclaimed a woman.

  Everyone looked at each other and smiled: "It's ours!"

  It wasn't until the tank disappeared from their line of sight that they asked each other: What was that tank doing?

  There are many answers, but no one minds having another one. For them, isn't saving and being frugal for the country's strength to have more of these big guys?

  "It's worth it!" They saw the 'cross' mark on the tank body, and they would say to their companions with great satisfaction: Look, that is the power of our nation.

  Xu Yang and his men arrived at the gate of the arsenal, where the guard, trembling with fear, refused to let them drive their tanks in, citing the reason that it would crush the granite floor inside, which was the Air Force Commander's.

  Manshan thus carved which has a clever appearance, he even did not know what he was doing, when he heard Xuyang let him twist open the car top cover, he did so.

  The moment the car roof was opened, Xu Yang saw many people rushing out of the Military Affairs Department building from the firepower inspection window, and Golin was among them.

  Xu Yang hadn't been so happy in a long time. He signaled to Joseph to take his place, crawled out of the tank and shouted at the crowd: "Herman G?ring, you damned fatso, return my military supplies!!!"

  The cacophony of voices stopped abruptly, they looked at the tank with a weird expression, Xu Yang's face was filled with anger, and he could only hear him shouting something about the turret turning to several degrees, what cannon elevation is several degrees...

  "Good heavens! That guy's got his gun trained on us!" someone in the crowd exclaimed.

  Reinhard-Heidrich was the head of the security department, and this time he also came to apply for materials. Unfortunately, G?ring also refused with the excuse of lack of materials, which made him very angry. At this moment, he was standing among the crowd, seeing the cannon pointing at him, his heart was shocked, hearing someone shouting "fire" when the cannon emitted white smoke, he and others thought the same: it's all over...